The old saying 'like father, like son' springs to mind when considering Ettore and Jean Bugatti. Ettore's name is always associated with innovative, race-winning sports cars and beautiful grand tourers constructed to the highest standards of engineering and æstheticexcellence, but from 1930, after he persuaded his father to use twin-cam engines in lieu of the single overhead-cam designs which had served Bugatti so well through the 1920s, young Jean started to enjoy an increasingly active rôle at the…
The old saying ‘like father, like son’ springs to mind when considering Ettore and Jean Bugatti. Ettore’s name is always associated with innovative, race-winning sports cars and beautiful grand tourers constructed to the highest standards of engineering and æstheticexcellence, but from 1930, after he persuaded his father to use twin-cam engines in lieu of the single overhead-cam designs which had served Bugatti so well through the 1920s, young Jean started to enjoy an increasingly active rôle at the Molsheim works.